Application of E- Learning in Engineering Education

Application of E- Learning in Engineering Education

1. Current practices of ICT and E-Learning in Engineering Educaation

   • institution to share their teaching expertise and learning resources globally
     • provide sharing of virtual and remote laboratories among universities
     • provide E-Learning through web and video courses in engineering, science and humanities
     • creating free global platforms to develop and deploy web successfully
   • develop learning objects for engineering education
     • advantages
       • more productive than conventional teaching
       • promote knowledge and developed skills and attitudes
       • developed teamwork
       • enhanced communication skills
       • improve skill and understanding when using software
       • manage workloads
     • deficiencies in conventional teaching
       • inadequate student-teacher interaction
       • complex teaching and learning
       • loss of synchronization
       • weak collaboration and communication
       • difficult student management

2. Case Study

   • Result
     • The individual components of computer based training were grouped into:-
       • classroom practices
       • laboratory practices
       • project work
       • seminar
       • assesment
       • management
     • E- Learning were considered as minimum acceptable standard and moderately used
     • usage of instrument, ICT, student record and conduct and in student assessment were found negligible
   • Methodology
     • The surveys questioners were resigned by elimination, reclassification and by inclusion of new factors
       • 1). Gather information about the existing use of basic IT tools in engineering classrooms and laboratories
       • 2). Gather information about the use of web based training tools currently used

3. Discussion

   • advantages
     • improve efficiency whether offered through traditional or emerging approaches
   • disadvantages
     • ICT and E-Learning are not employed even moderately
     • education is imparted using traditional pedagogy

4. E-Learning in Engineering Education

   • ICT
     • teaching
       • classroom lectures
       • demonstration and conduction of laboratory experiments
       • courses and class management
     • presentation
       • sufficient material
       • circuit diagrams
       • network diagrams
       • process diagrams
       • flowchart
     • aadvantages
       • time saving
       • availability
   • numerous computer such based tools
     • e-resources
     • blended learning
     • lecture management systems